Cybersecurity workers: here’s an interesting one.Yesterday, I did a Google search as a quick way of getting to the download page for a user manual for an old Cisco switch that a client has. Overnight, I received a spam email to “Atten:Sales Dept” asking for a quote for this exact model of switch. That’s a pretty amazing coincidence. 1. Can anyone confirm that spammers are actually paying for Google search data?2. If so, is Google doing anything to validate the legitimacy of their data customers?

"A group of European security researchers have released a warning about a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME. EFF has been in communication with the research team, and can confirm that these vulnerabilities pose an immediate risk to those using these tools for email communication, including the potential exposure of the contents of past messages."

I predict that software development is much closer to being a dead career than we care to admit. We're astonishingly close to machine-generated code based on verbal task descriptions, flow charts, and diagrams. Human software developers are going to go the way of typesetters and tailors. AI and machine learning will do it faster and with fewer errors.

Allison is a former student of mine, and a computer forensic investigator. Spell check wouldn't have caught the Microsoft error she refers to, but maybe their grammar check would've noticed. Anyway, it's funny. Can you find the problem in the picture?

Just found out about FireChat, it's a chat app that can use wi-fi and bluetooth to create a p2p mesh network if there's no internet connection. People in Asia seem to be using it during protests or concerts.

The real cybersecurity threat is a failure of human will. The solution to the ransomware problem is so incredibly simple: 1. Offline backups2. Offline server and workstation images3. Reload, and get back to work.So, where does human will fit into this? Business owners aren’t budgeting for the staff and equipment to do these simple, basic things. The solutions are available today. CEOs: you have to figure out that the solution is less expensive than the risk of doing nothing.